13 May 1939
in West Horsley, Surrey [registered in
Surrey South Western, September 1939].Attended Howard of
Effingham School, Horsley

Married

to Margot[registeration not found].

Died

27 October 1999 in
Cape Town, South Africa,
aged
60 years 167 days[not registered in England].

Height/Weight

5'
8½", 11st.
7lbs [1964].

Source

Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com

Biographies

The Strategy of Soccer - Johnny
Byrne (Pelham, London 1965)

The England international centre-forward
is most closely associated with Crystal Palace and West Ham in the fifties
and sixties. This is both autobiographical and instructional.
- A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999).

Club Career

Club(s)

Started
his career with Epsom Town FC and also Guildford City Youth FC. Joined
Crystal Palace FC as an amateur in 1955, turning professional in May 1956.
He played 220 league appearances, scoring 95 goals. West Ham United FC paid £58,000 and
Ron Brett for Byrne,
breaking the transfer record. After 156 league appearances and 79
goals, he re-signed for Crystal Palace FC in
February 1967 for a £45,000 transfer fee, making another 39
league appearances, scoring six times. Fulham FC paid £18,000 for
Byrne in March 1968 and he made nineteen league appearances,
scoring twice. He ended his career making 69 appearances with Durban City FC in South
Africa from May 1969 unti 1971.

Club honours

FA Cup
winners 1963-64; Football League runners-up
1965-66;

Individual honours

Football
League (seven appearances)

Distinctions

None

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

When he retired from playing in South
Africa, Byrne returned to England to manage Durham City FC, at the same
time, employed as a tyre company representative. He returned to South
Africa to coach Hellenic FC, even playing for them as a fifty year old in
an injury crisis. He also coached Michau Warriors and Cape Town Spurs,
until 1998. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.56.

Johnny Byrne - Career Statistics

Squads

Apps

Comp.
Apps

Starts

Sub on

Sub off

Mins.

Goals

Goals
Av.min

Comp.
Goals

Capt.

Disc.

18

11

4

11

0

0

990

8

124
min

0

none

none

Due to the fact that
many matches rarely stuck to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time
for injuries, errors and substitutions. The minutes here
given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only
an approximation.